A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
NYT reports on the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Second Amendment:
The court rejected the view that the Second Amendment’s “right of the people to keep and bear arms” applied to gun ownership only in connection with service in the “well regulated militia” to which the amendment refers.
Things are really complicated in DC:
Among existing gun-control laws, only Chicago comes close to the complete handgun prohibition in the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old law. The District’s appeal to the Supreme Court, filed last year after the law was struck down by the federal appeals court here, argued that the handgun ban was an important public safety measure in a congested, crime-ridden urban area.
OK, they’ve taken away the guns, so why is still a ‘congested, crime-ridden area?’
Update: A caller to CSPAN’s Washington Journal predicts that gun violence in DC will now fall.
